GETTING ESTABLISHED 



prise. "Bulling through" or skimping or cutting 

 corners simply will not work when one is dealing 

 with plant and animal life and only failure will 

 come to him who undertakes to bluff nature. 



The successful operator of a farming endeavor 

 must always be on top of his work, that is, 

 able to plan and direct his energies in the most 

 productive way at the right time. This is really 

 managing and is likely to lead to success and 

 satisfaction. To have so much to do that one 

 emergency after another must be met brings the 

 operator down under his farming projects. He 

 ceases to manage under these conditions and 

 becomes driven by his own creations. To avoid 

 this unhappy state, which is entirely unneces- 

 sary, planning must be effectively done and 

 operations undertaken in a gradual way up to 

 one's capacity. 



Cost of Land. The price one should pay 

 for land in a relatively small tract cannot be 

 arbitrarily fixed. Those who own large farms 

 or tracts expect to receive a bonus for the acres 

 located along a highway as compared with an 

 average price for the entire place. It should 

 be possible to buy a 5- or lo-acre tract of land 

 in the open country with highway frontage for 

 from $150 to $250 an acre, depending on location. 

 If the land is located near town or city where 

 speculative operations have enhanced values, 



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